Division of Newborn Medicine

When your baby needs special care, you want to be in the best hands. At the Boston Children's Hospital Division of Newborn Medicine, you are. We specialize in treating babies with a wide range of congenital and acquired conditions.

Our expertise in newborn medicine

At Boston Children's, your baby will be seen by a specially trained team of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and other health professionals who routinely diagnose and treat newborns with critical illnesses. Our team provides supportive, family–centered care in a technologically advanced environment. We track your baby's progress beginning with our prenatal consultation program, which counsels families expecting newborns with congenital conditions. Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit cares for at-risk newborns, and our Infant Follow-Up Program tracks your baby's development after she's left Boston Children's. Please review our NICU and IFUP pages for additional information on these clinical programs.

International referral center

Boston Children's NICU cares for approximately 600 newborns annually and serves as a local, regional, and international referral center for pre- and postnatal consultation, neonatal intensive care, and infant follow–up care.

Top rankings

Innovations

At Boston Children's Hospital, we aim to solve some of the world’s greatest pediatric health problems. Some ways we do this stem from scientific research: Understanding diseases deeply—even at the cellular or molecular level—leads to new drugs and therapies. Other discoveries arise from moments spent at patients’ bedsides, when doctors and nurses see opportunities to improve care. This approach, which we call “clinical innovation,” often requires us to develop entirely new tools or come up with inventive strategies. This creative form of innovation is the path by which many major improvements in health care have been made. The leading edge innovation characteristic of the Division of Newborn Medicine is made possible by the work of the Harvard Program in Neonatology.

The Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital is the academic and administrative center of the Harvard Program in Neonatology, a world-class research and training program for today's and tomorrow's academic Neonatologists and research scientists. Operating in two Harvard Longwood Medical Area hospitals, Boston Children's and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and also in close collaboration with Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Program is overseen and directed by the Chief of the Division of Newborn Medicine who serves as the Chair of the Academic Program. Please review our Harvard Program in Neonatology pages for an overview of the Program, and for comprehensive information on its three central components: the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program, Research and Innovation, and the Summer Student Research Program.

Boston Children's Hospital has been named the #1 children's hospital in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for the fifth year in a row! It's an honor that we could not have achieved without you. On behalf of every member of our Boston Children's team, thank you for inspiring us to be bolder, dream bigger, and make the impossible possible for our patients and families.